[ale] 30" LCD monitor locally

[Scott Castaline]

On 11/21/2010 05:33 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I've had weekends like that. After Lightning hit at tree 6 feet away 
> from my home office/shop, I wound up replacing all electronics over 
> then next 2 weeks. EMP from a near hit like that can make a few 
> thousand volts appear across network connections. For some reason, 
> probably physics related, most computer gear doesn't like 2kV incoming 
> over the ethernet ports.
My wife reminded me that we had a power hit just before this happened. 
On the other side that foils my plans of tapping into one of the high 
tension lines near my house.